So to make sense of the Blogging For Jesus seminar that I am delivering tonight at New Horizon 2008 I thought I would make the powerpoint available and link people to some of the resources I cited and the sites I mentioned. Instead of hand-outs, I thought it appropriate to blog the resources.
Slides:
The slides, should you for some insane reason want to see them again, are available here. Don’t crash our Furiousthinking server on us now.
Sites Mentioned In Seminar
In the course of my talk I mentioned a load of sites including “the most popular blog in the world” BoingBoing, my favourite blog in the world PostSecret, the funniest Christian blog Purgatorio and the beautiful BigPicture.
I mentioned my friends Sam and Jaybercrow and made reference to my pastor’s blog and to my church’s website. I also managed to squash in some compliments for Scott Bailey and plugged a pastor up on the North Coast!
I quoted from Wibsite, Clay Shirkey and the wonderfully offensive Maddox.
I also mentioned my wife’s blog. Which I find amusing.
Setting Up A Blog
I set up a wordpress blog to show how easy it is but you could just as easily use blogger or countless other solutions. This is a useful Irish introduction to what it involves to tinker with a personal blog. It’s a well written technical guide. How rare is that?
Other Resources
If you are interested in church website design then the boys at Church Marketing Sucks and Godbit are useful people to drop in on. If you want to read a little bit about the theology of technology and specifically the idea that it might be need to be de-constructed then Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society or Marva Dawn’s Powers And Weakness or Alan Borgmann’s Power Failure might be good places to start. Finally, we read The Blogging Church before setting up our church website to make sure we wouldn’t make any basic mistakes.
So it might not make the greatest blog entry and thus break all the rules that I would love to espouse in the actual seminar but should anyone actually show up, hopefully this will be a useful resource.
Your Correspondent, Both his thumbs are opposable
Enjoyed the seminar – got us thinking – always a good thing.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Hi Kevin
One more resource for church websites is Internet Evangelism Day’s church website design self-assessment tool ( InternetEvangelismDay.com/design )
Blessings
Tony
Pleasure to meet you last night JanMary. As you can see, the post was written before our unfortunate technical difficulties!
The most important question, did you get to the Bushmills Inn?
Hey
I was pretty sceptical when I saw that NH were doing a seminar on ‘Blogging for Jesus’, and of course there was no way I was going to be caught going to a seminar on blogging (!), but I stumbled across your site a day or two after and the powerpoint looked pretty good so I bought the CD (don’t really want a lot of people knowing that either, come to think of it) and really enjoyed it. Think you were spot on in what you said – and your church sounds really exciting too!
Stephen
PS: Seeing I have the CD, I can put an mp3 of the talk online if you want.
Bushmills Inn has to wait for another day David, sadly.
Stephen, I’m delighted you enjoyed it. I have no problem with the mp3 going up. Presuming New Horizon don’t mind I can’t object. Especially as I argued Christians should be able to stand over their words…